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August 2, 2023

Burma's Military Junta Grants Partial Pardon to Aung San Suu Kyi, Delays Elections
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Burma's military rulers granted deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi a pardon
in five of the 19 cases against her. Suu Kyi, who was ousted and
detained in the February 2021 military coup, will remain under house
arrest. Suu Kyi is a Nobel Peace Prize winner who once fought against
the Burmese military, but later defended its genocide of Rohingya
Muslims in 2017.

On Monday, the military junta again extended a state of emergency and
delayed elections that had been promised to take place this month. A
local rights group says over 3,800 people have been killed in the
military's crackdown on post-coup protests, and over 24,000 people
arrested.


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